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100

Who are the "bad guy" business leaders

Robber Barons

100

What animal did Native Americans use all parts of

Buffalo

100

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do

Prohibit Chinese immigrants from entering the country to find work 

100

Name one benefit of the railroad

Economy, Travel, Nativism, Industrialization, Job Opportunities, etc

100

Laissez Faire

Lazy

200

Give an example of a pull factor

Job/economic/education opportunities, freedom of speech/ religion, group migration, 

200
Native Americans were forced to give up their culture and beliefs and ______

Assimilate 

200

What did the Pacific Railroad Act do

Allow for the creation of the railroad

200

Majority of railroad workers were from

China and Ireland

200

When a company owns all parts of a business

Monopoly 

300

Who founded the Populist Party

Farmers

300
Native Americans called this "devils rope"

Was used to keep in cattle

 

Barbed wire

300

What did the Homestead Act do

Encouraged people to move West by offering a free 160 acres for farming

300

Where are the Great Plains

the middle of the country

300

The name for a reason someone would want to leave their home country and immigrate elsewhere

Push Factor

400

Who taught American cowboys how to herd longhorn steel cattle on the open range

Mexican vaqueros 

400

When settlers in the West began overkilling buffalo what was one impact on Native American communities

Limited food, skin for tools, fat for fuel/soap, hide for clothing or teepees, etc

400

Who benefitted from Laissez faire (lazy) governments the most

Big business owners

400

Companies could now sell their products where

Across the country

400

The "good guy" business leaders 

Captains of Industry

500

What is Social Darwinism

T

500

True or False: Native Americans were forced off their land and sent to live on reservations in order to make room for people to move West

True

500

Explain Social Darwinism

Survival of the fittest

500

Name one industry that benefitted from the production of the railroad

Steel, Hotel, Coal

500

The official name for the use of two metals as a form of currency ($) 

Bimetallism